Crap, do these heat shield noises ever go away totally?!?! - Honda Prelude Forum

enycepunjabi · 11-09-2005, 05:54 AM

I have an 01 5 speed. Last week while driving I noticed some SERIOUS noises. For instance, when I was in 2nd gear and took my foot off the gas I would hear a rattling noise. It scared the crap out of me. When I was in the lower gears and would push the clutch in, I would hear it again. It was embarrasing b/c people outside my car heard the noises and thought my car was falling apart. I'm anal about my car. All maintanence is done on time if not before.

I parked the car, made my boy get under the car and while I revved, he heard the rattling from underneath. So I took it to my mechanic the next day and he welded something on the heat shield to make the noise go away. Fine. But, in the past few days I noticed the noise again under the same situations. But this time the noise is faint, and it still is. It just irritates me. I dont like driving cars with noises.

Will this noise ever permanently go away without taking off the heat shield? Anyone else experience this too?

Paul H22 · 11-09-2005, 07:10 AM

Take it back to the dude to weld it better.

Are you talking about the heat shield for the header? If so, remove it.

JrSr2003 · 11-09-2005, 11:28 AM

Had the same thing a couple days ago. So I took of the heat shield for my cat and hoped that would take care of it.

unfortunetly it didn't,

I did a little more looking and it turns out the braket for my dc headers snapped off... I really couldn't see it untill I got up close. you might want to check that out...

enycepunjabi · 11-09-2005, 11:30 AM

I have no jack...im jackless

enycepunjabi · 11-09-2005, 11:38 AM

I dont have aftermarket headers...I have OEM headers

I only have aem cold air intake. I think its the Cat shield...Im taking the damn thing off.

later guys

petern101 · 11-09-2005, 12:05 PM

so if you want to maintain your car, a $40 jack would be well worth it

97type-s · 11-09-2005, 02:33 PM

Does removing the stock header heat shield increase under bonnet temps? Thereby decrease performance? I dont have a pod filter so will it make no difference if I remove it?

petern101 · 11-09-2005, 08:52 PM

i doubt removing that thin piece of metal will do much in forms of performance

seeing as every aftermarket header doesnt' have one, i think its safe to say you won't notice a difference